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12% of women is not exactly "rare"! The fact that it did not come out before is telling. It's interesting to notice how designing screens to use the RGB colors
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
12% of women is not exactly "rare"! The fact that it did not come out before is telling.
It's interesting to notice how designing screens to use the RGB colors is very limiting for those people.
Imagine living in a world where 94% of people have the same form of color blindness and you don't.
People would randomly mix e.g. blue and green in every place and ignore your comments with a smirk.
- zozbot234 7y ago12% per cent of women is roughly 6% overall, that's quite rare. 94% of the population can't perceive this.
- fwip 7y agoI don't think 1 in 16 is "quite rare." If you've got 100 people you know by name (and you likely have more), 6 of them have got this.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoMost of that 6% don't have the useful form of tetrachromacy. Their response curve of their extra cone is almost identical to one of their existing ones. This is like deuteranomaly (the most common form of colourblindness), in which people can't distinguish red and green because their L and M cones are too similar.
- masklinn 7y ago12% of women are tetrachromats in the sense that they have 4 pigments, but only a small minority of those are functional tetrachromat, where the 4th pigment is sufficiently shifted from L or M that it can actually pick up relevant information. As the article notes, Jordan & al spent 20 years researching tetrachromacy before they found a functionally tetrachromat individual.